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Trying to make your Great Body Shop health readers more efficient for reading comprehension?  This note-taking sheet can be used for any GBS reader for students in grades 2-6.  They will be asked about vocabulary, note important details, formulating questions to experts and making connections to the topics.  Four enrichment activities are included as optional added assignments. Easy and quick!  Great for small groups! Can be as guided or independent as needed. Use with any Great Body Shop reader

Use this one-page handout prior to reading the novel, City of Ember.  This activity will introduce the genre of dystopian fiction, guide a discussion, do a book cover study and get your class excited to start this amazing novel! Check out our other items from this novel including activities (not just comprehension questions) for every chapter and "The Message" in bookmark form for students to solve along with Lina and Doon. All items are BUNDLED as well!!

Print out these bookmarks with "the message" that readers discover in Chapter 7, "A Message Full of Holes". Students can fill in and decipher the message along with main characters, Lina and Doon. We hope you enjoy! Check out our other items from this novel including activities for every chapter (not just comprehension questions) and a prereading activity to get your students excited for this novel unit. All items are BUNDLED as well!!

This bundle contains 29 reading response activities for your City of Ember novel study, from the preview through Chapter 20. Written responses, Words to Know, exit tickets, interactive book marks, optional extension/alternate activities... There are various ways for students to engage with the text and show what they know. We want teachers to have flexibility with how they want to teach this unit, especially when determining how much time they have to commit to this novel study each day. These

Once you buy, you will receive a hyperlinked doc with EVERYTHING you need. This unit is not specific to any election cycle and can be used repeatedly. This easy to use unit centers on learning about a presidential election through vocabulary previews, short, student-friendly reading comprehension passages, and discussion prompts. This can be a one to two week unit (about 20 minutes per day), but can be adjusted to whatever works for you and your students. After learning about the presidential

This two-page activity is an engaging way to get your class ready to read the wonderful novel, The Tale of Despereaux! Use this to introduce the genre of fairy tales and its elements, identify the point of view of the story, do a book cover study, and introduce the term connotation to help guide vocabulary discussions throughout your novel study. This handout is helpful to get kids engaging in class discussion and get excited. TE included!

It’s time to have some Halloween fun! Our Spooky Business unit is exactly what you need for your students to practice grammar, create a unique narrative, draw a spooky scene, and ends with reading their creation aloud to the class. Check out our included instructional planner. The basic outline is brainstorming spooky/scary/Halloween grammar terms, filling out their own Mad Libs-style story (four differentiated/leveled stories), illustrating their title page (six options!), and reading a few of

We LOVE The Tale of Despereaux! Throughout our years of teaching this wonderful piece of fiction, we have found that in addition to being a beautiful story for primary students, it also lends itself to some important standards for upper grade students. This unit contains many different ways to dig into character development, vocabulary, theme, figurative language, comprehension, imagery and so much more. We have curated a collection of ideas for your novel study. This is not just pages of compre

This super fun unit is a great way to incorporate Thanksgiving into your reading and writing in November! Using the book "Balloons Over Broadway" by Melissa Sweet and an included nonfiction article, students will work on vocabulary using context clues, reading comprehension, note-taking, and combining information from two texts to summarize the wonderful tradition of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A final persuasive writing activity combined with their own design for a balloon in the para

This project is intended to be completed after your unit on Native Americans and the regions. Students will become an expert in one of the regions of the state and the early peoples who lived there. This resource includes two variations of poems; acrostic or descriptive. You can print these templates or share digital versions for your students to fill in. It also a graphic organizer/thinking map for each region, an organizer for the descriptive poem, and acrostic templates along with student sam

International unit of study that can be used by a single class/grade/or entire school! This is a Google Doc with all links included. Easy to adapt and extend, great for genius projects. This unit includes 35 country fact sheets that can be shared digitally or as posters, a scavenger hunt with 2 levels (primary and upper), editable copies to customize, and all countries pinned on a Google My Map for added depth and exploration. Great for International/Cultural Night, library activity, GATE stu

GREAT resource various students. If you or your school has a subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica online, you can have students research an incredible variety of topics with various reading levels. Make a copy of this resource and edit the however you want. In our upper grade classroom, we'd use this resource weekly across the curriculum. Copy a big stack and have them available for research, early finishers, extension activities, partner work...etc. There's room for listing facts learned, gi

This is a slide deck with 20 important quotes from a diverse selection of individuals and cultures. As we know, it's motivating for students to see themselves and their world represented in quotes and images. You will notice differing ages, abilities, skin color, religions, careers, genders, countries, etc. Each slide has one quote, two discussion questions, and a mini bio of the person/culture being quoted. Ideas, use as a daily/soft opener, have it on your screen as students come in, insert i

This unit on the transcontinental railroad is intended to take a more in depth look at the transcontinental railroad and the workers pivotal to its success with reading passages, a four-corner activity, and a short oral presentation in a small group. There is an introductory, whole class reading activity on the transcontinental railroad with comprehension included.   Then students will break into 4 groups and become an expert on one of the workers responsible for the completion and function of

This five day unit is highly engaging for upper students! A suggested lesson plan is included but this can be altered to fit your classroom needs. Students will begin with multiple opportunities to listen to, read the lyrics, and watch the video of the song "Long Live" by Taylor Swift. Students will close read and take notes and participate in class/group discussions. They will review, discuss and write a response on the theme of the lyrics and how the music video adds to their understanding of

Looking for an easy way to have your students reflect on a behavior and write an apology? This document allows for quick instruction and for students to reflect on their choices with empathy for who they are writing to. It comes with 2 formats; one for primary with sentence starters and one for upper grades with a check-off to guide students in the process. This also includes directions for instruction and display as a small poster.

How do families know what their student did all day at school? With this Weekly Planner, you prioritize 5-10 minutes at the end of each school day for every student to reflect and write a recap of daily important activities and list any homework. They bring it home to read to a trusted adult who then signs their initials each day, and the student brings it back to school. Now families can keep up with their student's tests, assignments, projects, and school reminders every single day. It builds

This 10-day Gratitude Journal includes creative prompts that connect different grammar concepts. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are woven into each prompt. This resource is great for fostering an "attitude of gratitude" and finding ways to be thankful during our school day. This slide deck connects to SEL, can be used as a soft start to your school day, a way to calmly enter the classroom after recess, or however you can fit it into your busy schedule. Staple some paper together as a qu

It’s time to have some Halloween fun! Our Spooky Business unit is exactly what you need for your students to practice grammar, create a unique narrative, draw a spooky scene, and it ends with reading their creation aloud to the class. The basic outline is brainstorming spooky/scary/Halloween grammar terms, filling out their own Mad Libs-style story (two differentiated/leveled stories), illustrating their title page (three options!), and reading a few of their favorite sentences aloud to the clas

Use our Create-A-Story tiles to engage your learners and make writing fun and unexpected! Print out the two pages, cut the category tiles out, choose one tile from each category you want, then display those tiles to have students create their own story from. They could do this orally, written, in partners, teams, whatever you want! There are SO many ways to use this resource. We were inspired by the "Roll-a-Story" model, and wanted to scale it for use within a classroom. Have fun!